BETHESDA, Md. (April 28, 2023) — Just 4% of patients with obesity who underwent bariatric surgery developed obesity-associated cancer in a 10-year follow up, compared to 8.9% among those who did not ...

Cleveland Clinic has a new chair of its Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute. The Clinic announced that Dr. Miguel Regueiro has been named to the position, succeeding Dr. Matthew Walsh, who had ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Updates to the 1991 NIH statement on gastrointestinal surgery for severe obesity include recommendations for ...

Prophylactic drainage is widely used in gastrointestinal surgery, despite evidence that this might be harmful in some instances. Using data published over a period of almost 40 years, Petrowsky and ...

Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD, is an endocrinologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. As a physician-scientist in molecular biology, she uses her research on diabetes, lipid disorders, ...

The impact of prediabetes on cerebrovascular risk among patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This ...

The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT) has chosen Springer as the publisher of the Society's journal Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. Springer will begin publishing this monthly ...

University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., FACS, Endowed Chair Daniel Chu, M.D., MSPH, FACS, FASCRS, has been selected as associate division ...

Gallstones are hard deposits that form in the gallbladder. About a quarter of people with gallstones need treatment, which is usually surgery. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and ...

Fistulas are atypical tube-like connection that forms between two organs or vessels inside the body. The most common fistulas are anal, urinary tract, and gastrointestinal fistulas. There are many ...

Experts from UAB and across the country lecture on a range of cutting-edge surgical topics. Surgical Grand Rounds is held weekly on Tuesday at 7:15 a.m. in Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium or via ...